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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/40> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MostGloballyLinkedFiles>.
You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GloballyWantedFiles>. [1]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/143755> [2]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/143828>
- There are now many more translations for language names. [3]
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/891/focus=2804>
*Software changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf1>) is on test wikis
and
MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on
September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had
to click on "Script error" to see them. [4]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71038> [5]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/143061/>
- You can add an "autovalue
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:TemplateData#Auto_value>" for a
field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value
will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows
the date it was added. [6]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51428>
- If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you
want to save it. [7]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55966> [8]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92677/>
- The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language
support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [9]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000955.html>
*Future changes*
- You can watch a video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpkHyCGX1Y> showing
Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more
about the move
from Bugzilla
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla>
.
- JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please
check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones
if needed. [10]
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